About Federico P.

I am a biologist, a photographer and a documentary filmmaker with a keen eye for human-environment interactions in all their shapes and forms. I mostly work on nature, science and conservation documentaries but my eyes are also drawn to everyday expressions of human culture.

About Laura O.

LAURA OTÁLORA, (Bogotá, Colombia 1989) is an award-winning visual anthropologist and documentary filmmaker. From an early age she wanted to merge social and cultural studies with the visual arts, so she decided to study Anthropology with an emphasis in Art History and Theory at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogota. After finishing her degree she traveled to Spain to do a Masters in Visual Anthropology at the University of Barcelona. Later he decided to expand his knowledge in the audiovisual area, starting another Master's Degree in Documentary Film at the Barcelona Film School (ECIB). Since then she has worked in the realization of other documentaries in areas such as methodological research, script, production, DOP and post-production. For three years he coordinated the production company CAD ProducUons, where he developed several projects for international organizations such as the UN and the World Bank, covering topics such as Climate Change, Sustainable Development and Food Security in several countries in Africa, America, Europe and Asia. Among these projects, he directed the documentary interacUvo Kijanal, about the food sovereignty of the indigenous peoples of Chiapas and Yucatan in Mexico. He also worked on the documentary series REDD+ in Africa, for the World Bank, on climate change mitigation in several African countries. In parallel she parUcipated as co-founder of the Cook n Roots project, dedicated to the invesUgation of the roots of gastronomy, through Visual Anthropology, filming diverse cultural ways of understanding gastronomy, developing a broad knowledge of the gastronomic cultures of several countries. In 2019 she directed her first feature film Chef's Diaries Scotland, a documentary where the Roca brothers from the presUgious restaurant Celler de Can Roca, invesUgate about traditional products and cuisines from Spain and Scotland. It won the award for best documentary at the Girona International Film FesUval and was selected for various festivals such as the Malaga FesUval, Sea`le InternaUonal Film FesUval and the Edinburgh InternaUonal Film FesUval among many others. It is also available on platforms such as Amazon Prime Video, Filmin and Mubi. Since 2019 she returned to Bogota where she works in directing and directing series and documentaries around Colombia. In 2021 the series Dis;l Your World premiered on Amazon Prime Video, in which he did the script and direction of two chapters, this same year he also directed the documentary series Vivas, which will premiere in 2022 on several Colombian TV channels. She is currently directing two feature documentaries: Impermanentes and Capitán. She is also the content director of the workshop Apichatpong Weerasethakul Lab: Filming in the Amazon and is a professor of Documentary Film at the National Film School (ENACC).

About Dani T.

Born in Ecuador and living in Colombia, Daniel is a multimedia journalist specialized in news gathering for press agencies and international media, with extensive experience working in hostile environments. For over a decade he has freelanced for: Reuters TV, Reuters Photo, AFP and Ruptly. He has also worked as a VJ and photographer for Playboy Magazine, AJPlus, Al Jazeera Arabic, NTN24, CNN Spanish, Getty Images, Christophorus Magazine (Porsche), Associated Press and others. Daniel is also an active member of the Frontline Freelance Register (FFR). Some of his top stories include "The 2016 earthquake that shook the coast of Ecuador", "The eruption of the Tungurahua volcano" that began in 2000, and "The attempted coup that unruly police officers caused in Ecuador in 2010". He is able to react quickly and has the necessary technical equipment, including satellite devices, drones, teleprompters and safety gear. Daniel is ready to cover breaking news and reports across the continent.

About Maria C.

My name is Camila and I´m a visual artist with wide experience on documentaries. I have worked as a producer, filmmaker and writer in a diverse range of audiovisual projects. I've acknowledge experience on all the production processes and got involved with research, writing and conceptual development for audiovisual pieces. I consider myself a creative, responsible, excellent working partner. I'm kind of an introvert, but friendly and disciplined. I have worked for Discovery Channel, Nat Geo, TLC, PBS among others. My versatile profile has given me a complete comprehension of the audiovisual world and has given me lots of tools to finish any given task.

About Manuel R.

Journalist and filmmaker based in Colombia with a decade of experience working for international news channels, magazines and NGOs. Recently I have also shot stories in Mexico, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador and Brazil.

About Melissa S.

I am a Colombian audiovisual director and creator. Since 2008 I have been working in an audiovisual field with content on the arts, culture and communities. I am always ready to take on new challenges with commitment and quality.

About Antoine B.

French Video Journalist. Currently based in Bogotá, Colombia. Shoot, edit and interviews. Drone. Work in French, English and Spanish. +33 6 22 17 90 96 / x

About Ivan S.

Hi my name is Ivan Sheligo I been working on commercials and video productions all over the world. I've directed feature films that have gained worldwide distribution and has shot video campaigns for high profile clients such as Galderma, Pepsico, Deadline, Hasbro, Samsung and Google. I can handle large and small projects, from how-to videos, short films, commercials, demo reels and music videos to feature films and everything in between.

About Pedro S.

I am a multimedia journalist, writer and documentary producer. Studied Literature, Philosophy, Creative Writing in the University of Iowa and Journalism in the Columbia Journalism School. Latest examples of my video work can be seen on my webpage. Video is my passion, I live for beautiful stories, it's the salt of my life.

About Cady V.

I have experience producing documentary films, writing feature articles, and packaging radio & TV pieces. I'm an American based in Bogotá, Colombia, with experience working in English, Spanish and French. In 2015, following dreams of being a full-time storyteller, I moved to India to co-direct a documentary about an orphanage outside the city of Hyderabad. Most recently, I served as the managing editor at Innovations | Stories, an online publication sharing the stories of social innovators all over the Global South. While at Innovations | Stories I designed and spearheaded a multimedia editorial strategy which allowed for more diverse content (a heavier focus on photo and video stories). As managing editor I supported video and photo freelance contributors from all over the world and designed storytelling trainings for social innovators to tell their own stories. I'm originally from Berkeley, California, USA and I earned my B.S. from the University of California, Davis in Community and Regional Development with a minor in Art Studio (focusing on video and photography). From 2010-2015 I directed a global education program called One World Youth Project (OWYP), based in Washington, DC. At OWYP I designed middle school (age 10-14) curriculum and trained university students to teach it around the world in their own communities. The program taught the children cross-cultural communication by empowering them to create and send video, photo, and written messages to their partner classroom abroad - all facilitated by trained university student volunteers. While serving as program director at OWYP I had the privilege of traveling around the world visiting schools and delivering trainings at universities. My work in education and the opportunity to see so much of the world made me realize I wanted to tell stories. Storytelling is the best form of education anyway.

About Adelaida P.

Adelaida Pardo is a Colombian cinematographer with a nomadic spirit. She has worked in film productions both in documentary and fiction. Has been based in Canada, Colombia, Scotland, and Estonia. Now she is based in Berlin and works locally and internationally, as a freelance cinematographer. adelaidapardo(at)gmail(dot)com.

About Richard M.

Richard McColl is a British-born, Colombia-based freelance broadcast and print correspondent, guide and hotelier. After studying modern languages at Exeter University, he pursued an MA in International Journalism in London and later became a Conflict Resolution Specialist at the Universidad Pontificia la Javeriana in Bogotá. He has been based in the Americas for 18 years and for the last twleve years has made Colombia his home, travelling between the capital and his guesthouse La Casa Amarilla in Mompóx. He currently freelances for more than a dozenpublications around the world, routinely files for the BBC World Service and TRT news and is currently studying for a PhD in Bogotá and hosts a weekly podcast called “Colombia Calling”.

About Oscar C.

I´am audiovisual producer, I have participated in documentary, institutional audiovisual projects such as cameraman, director of photography, editor.

About Juan C.

Colombian Filmmaker, Editor, colorist. College professor

About Juan Z.

Juan Carlos Zapata León, born in Cartagena, Colombia in 1984. He studied Film and Photography at the Unitec University Corporation in Bogota. He entered the world of journalism when he joined Publicaciones Semana (a colombian media company) in 2011, obtaining the position of videographer, which he held until 2014. In June of that year, he traveled to France and lived in that country for the next 10 months, venturing as an event photographer for some concerts and plays. When he returns to Bogotá, he begins to work with the correspondents of the Spanish newspaper El País, making videos for the newspaper's website. Thanks to this work, he travels to different regions of Colombia making audiovisual specials, most related to the peace process and the subsequent signing of the end of the armed conflict. In September 2017, he began working with the French television channel France 24 in Spanish, after opening its headquarters for the Ibero-American public in the Colombian capital. He currently works there making audiovisual pieces of various kinds, in addition to developing independent projects for different companies and NGOs. Since March of this year, when the pandemic caused by covid-19 began, he also linked himself with the French news agency AFP, with whom he has worked reporting all kinds of stories during the quarantine.

About Mateo R.

Graduated from Film and Television from the National University of Colombia in 2012. Artistic and cultural manager in various fields. Screenwriter, Director, Editor and Producer. I have done work with communities and historical memory processes around the country. Egresado de Cine y Televisión de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia en el 2012. Gestor artístico y cultural en diversos campos. Guionista, Productor, Cámara, Director y Editor. He trabajado con procesos comunitarios y de memoria histórica alrededor del país.

About Adriana B.

Audiovisual Social Communicator of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Colombia. She worked as a librettist and script assistant in dramatic projects developed by Primetime for the RCN channel and Sony. In 2014, she completed her master's studies in Theory and Practice of Creative Documentary at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and was co-director and scriptwriter of the documentary The Light we don't see, co-produced by TVE. Since 2015 she has been linked to the production company GusanoFilms, performing the position of field producer of the documentary Vogulys, winner of the DOCTV 2015. She is part of the development and production team of projects with this same production company and is co-directing the documentary TORO, winner from the IDARTES Documentary Short Film Creation Grant in 2018, the IDARTES Original Music Creation Grant for a feature film in 2020 and the FDC 2020 Stimulus for Documentary Feature Post-production, in Colombia. Co-director and producer of the short documentary Unconditional freedom, a photographic project by Carlos Duque, held in the Bogotá District jail. She was the winner of the call of the Ministry of Culture for "New Creators" in 2017 and of two India Catalina awards for Best New Creator and Best Youth Program with the documentary project Love in the Times of the Match, as producer and screenwriter. In addition, she participated as a director of the program First my neighborhood on Canal Capital in Bogotá, worked as a producer and documentary DP of the Fuerza Latina program on Deutsche Welle channel and as a scriptwriter for documentary series for USAID and RTVC in Colombia.

About Hector E.

I am a freelance international reporter, with ten years of experience in written stories, photography, and video reporting. I have covered riots, political, economic and social crises, immigration issues, guerrillas, and elections in some thirty countries. I have six years of experience in Latin America. I have done reports in all the countries of continental America, from the US to Argentina, including Venezuela, Colombia, Nicaragua and Bolivia, as well as in some Caribbean islands, including Cuba. Previously I worked in Greece, Turkey and the Balkans, for three years. You can see part of my work on this web page: https://hectorestepa.wordpress.com/ This link, especially, for video reports: https://hectorestepa.wordpress.com/videos/ I am a multitasking reporter. I produce my own reports, I do the photographs, the videos for TV, and the written reports. I speak Spanish (native), English and Portuguese.

About DANIEL R.

About Avant F.

Avant-Garde was born in 2014 in Bogota - Colombia, by a filmmaker that wanted to have the creative freedom to develop his ideas and grow professionally in a country that is a current hub of video and sound production worldwide. In the beginning, we dedicated ourselves exclusively to audiovisual projects, and we complemented our portfolio, providing services such as; rental and loans of equipment for the entertainment industry. In 2017, we made a strategic alliance with Aura Records to strengthen our services in sound design and music production, offering premium services that meet international standards of quality. Three years later, at the beginning of 2020, we expanded our headquarters to provide a physical space development of artistic and multicultural projects. Due to the pandemic and quarantine, this expansion, achieved in mid-2021 and, so far, we have hosted multiple creative projects from local artists (https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=9UdXHZug8MN). Within the Avant-Garde product catalog, we offer: rental of equipment, locations, music production, audiovisual production and co-production, artistic consultancy, artistic training (music, dance & graphics), production of artistic projects; management for artists (brand advice, technical and legal advice, creative direction and marketing.) In addition to the alliance with Aura Records, we have links and creative cooperation projects with; Bellaporta, Mathew Valbuena, and Taller Gráfico Editores. Additionally, we have worked on projects with Crowe, Dynamo, Señal Colombia, Pilar Larraz Ad hoc design, Idartes, among others. We have one the following recognition on the industry: Documentary Documentary serires Reparar para Seguir (2013) Nominated India Catalina 2014 - Postproduction Documentary serires Los Puros Criollos (2014) Nominated India Catalina 2014 - Postproduction Shortfilms Cabeza de Torpedo (2019) Production company Los Tres (2020) Executive producer Furtivo (2021-2022) Winner Incubadora BFM en el marco del XVII Bogoshorts - Co-production Music Videos Music video “Me Sangra” Pornomotora (2010) Nominated Salón Internacional de la luz 2012 - DP and Art Director Music video “Ahí Estaré” No Stories (2019) Nominated XVII Bogoshorts - Executive producer and Director Ads Promo Cinemateca Distrital (2016) Director and producer Architecture Promo Ad Hoc Design (2017) Director and producer